The Evening Blues - 1-28-26
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This evening's music features Chicago blues harmonica player Big John Wrencher. Enjoy!
Big John Wrencher - Tell Me Darling
"There is a prejudice against the spoken lie, but none against any other, and by examination and mathematical computation I find that the proportion of the spoken lie to the other varieties is 1 to 22,894. Therefore the spoken lie is of no consequence, and it is not worth while to go around fussing about it and trying to make believe that it is an important matter. The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples - that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at."
-- Mark Twain
News and Opinion
The lies get so tedious.
The Iranians want their country to be bombed.
Hamas beheaded 40 babies.
Pro-Palestine demonstrations caused the Bondi massacre.
There’s a terrorist base under every hospital.
The news media are reporting objective facts about the world.
You live in a democracy where the votes of the people influence the actions of your government.
We’re the Good Guys in every foreign conflict.
The US makes mistakes from time to time, but they’re acting with good intentions and we’re better off with them in charge of the world.
Rich people are rich because they’re smarter and work harder than everyone else.
Capitalism is more or less working out fine for everyone.
The world works pretty much the way you were taught in school.
Profit-driven technological innovation and industry is going to rescue us from the ecological consequences of profit-driven technological innovation and industry.
It doesn’t matter that we’re destroying our biosphere because we’re about to set out for the stars and colonize space any minute now.
All the problems in your country are the fault of the other mainstream political faction, and you can fix those problems by focusing all your anger on the people in the other faction.
Now is not the time for revolutionary politics.
You can’t just let people say whatever they want to say about their government and its allies.
Success looks like making a lot of money and owning a lot of possessions and earning the respect of the largest and most influential institutions in our society.
If you are unable or unwilling to make a lot of money and obtain a lot of possessions, you are bad and you should feel bad about yourself.
You should derive your sense of self-worth from how effective you are at turning the gears of industry and giving the system exactly what it wants from you.
This is all normal. All this suffering, death, destruction, war, chaos, exploitation, injustice, poverty and abuse is normal. People who want to change things are abnormal, and should be viewed with suspicion.
Tedious.
It’s just lies, lies, lies, all the way down.
We live in a civilization that was built on lies, is made of lies, and is sustained by lies. As soon as the lies stop, the whole thing comes tumbling down.
They begin teaching us the lies as soon as we are old enough to learn them, and they never stop educating the lies into our brains until we are dead. It’s no wonder we’re getting more and more miserable, dysfunctional and crazy.
Mental sovereignty under the empire of lies means purging all the malignant indoctrination from every level of your cognition and perception until you are able to think freely and perceive the world with clear eyes. It’s a long, difficult process, but it’s necessary if you want to form a truth-based relationship with reality and learn to see things as they actually are.
Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. War on Iran - "An Attack Is Imminent"
US announces multi-day aerial military drills in the Middle East amid Iran tensions
The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada” led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.
The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncertain.
Air Forces Central, the air component of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), said on Tuesday that it would hold a “multi-day readiness exercise to demonstrate the ability to deploy, disperse and sustain combat airpower across the US Central Command area of responsibility”. The exercise was “designed to enhance asset and personnel dispersal capability, strengthen regional partnerships and prepare for flexible response execution”, Air Forces Central added in a statement.
The dates, location and list of US military assets to take part in the exercises has not been made public. But the exercise appeared designed to display the US ability to project force into the region as tensions with Iran have escalated.
CENTCOM announced on Monday that a large US naval deployment led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had arrived in the region on Monday. The aircraft carrier, which has several dozen fighter jets and nearly 5,000 sailors, was accompanied by several guided missile destroyers that carry air defences to protect the carrier strike group. The US has also moved a squadron of F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets to the region, according to the Washington Post, which come from the same unit that participated in strikes on Iran in April 2024. The UK has also moved Typhoon jets to the region in a “defensive capacity.”
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah warns of ‘total war’ if Iran is attacked
Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi paramilitary group, has warned of a “total war” if Iran is attacked, signalling it would militarily support Tehran if conflict breaks out as the United States amasses military assets in the region.
The Iran-backed group’s chief, Abu Hussein al‑Hamidawi, issued a fiery statement late on Sunday, calling on fighters to be prepared for war. He said the “forces of darkness” are gathering to subjugate and destroy Iran, describing the country as the “fortress and pride” of Muslims.
“We affirm to the enemies that war against the [Islamic] Republic will not be a walk in the park,” al‑Hamidawi said. “But rather, you will taste the bitterest forms of death, and nothing will remain of you in our region.”
When Israel and the US attacked Iran in June last year, its regional allies – known as the “axis of resistance”, which includes Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iraqi armed groups – did not come to its aid. But al‑Hamidawi suggested that this time would be different, emphasising “the necessity of supporting it from the forces of the axis and assisting it in whatever way they can”.
Prof. Glenn Diesen : The Hidden Fractures in the European Union
Mexico’s president says cancellation of oil shipment to Cuba is ‘sovereign’ decision
Mexico has cancelled a shipment of oil to Cuba, the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, appeared to confirm on Tuesday, but she insisted the decision was “sovereign” and not a response to pressure from the US. Fuel shortages are causing increasingly severe blackouts in Cuba, and Mexico has been the island’s biggest oil supplier since the US blocked shipments from Venezuela last month.
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Pemex, Mexico’s state oil company, had “backtracked” on plans to send a much-needed delivery to Cuba this month. Asked whether she denied the report in her daily press conference, Sheinbaum said: “It is a sovereign decision and it is made in the moment when necessary.”
The cancelled shipment comes amid reports that the Mexican government had been privately reviewing whether to keep sending oil to Cuba amid fear of reprisals from the US. After the US captured and renditioned Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela at the start of the year, it appeared to turn its attention to Cuba, Venezuela’s longstanding ally, with Donald Trump writing in a 11 January Truth Social post: “THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO!”
Sheinbaum sidestepped a question about whether the cancelled shipment is a one-off or could represent a more lasting suspension of oil shipments, while restating Mexico’s longstanding stance against the US blockade on Cuba. “Cuba has been under a blockade for too many years now. And this blockade has caused supply problems on the island,” said Sheinbaum. “Mexico has always shown solidarity and Mexico will continue to show solidarity.”
Max Blumenthal : Venezuela at a Crossroads
Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government
Civil rights attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the United States government on Tuesday on behalf of the families of two men from a small fishing village in Trinidad who were killed in a US military airstrike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea on 14 October.
The lawsuit, shared in advance with the Guardian, says that Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, both of Las Cuevas, Trinidad, were returning to Trinidad from Venezuela when they and four other people were killed in the strike. It was the fifth attack announced by the White House under Donald Trump’s campaign against the small go-fast boats the administration claims are connected to cartels and gangs. The suit was filed four days after the administration announced the 36th such boat attack on Friday, this one in the eastern Pacific. The death toll of the boat strikes stands around at least 117 people dead so far.
The lawsuit said the strikes were illegal. “These premeditated and intentional killings lack any plausible legal justification,” the lawsuit said. “Thus, they were simply murder, ordered at the highest levels of government and obeyed by military officers in the chain of command.” Legal scholars have said the strikes, launched against civilians in boats far from the US, are violations of domestic and international law. The Trump administration maintains they are legal, under a secret opinion written by the justice department that argues the US is in an armed conflict with cartels and that the laws of war apply to the strikes.
The suit over the October attack was filed in federal district court in Massachusetts under admiralty law, which addresses maritime disputes and violations, and was brought by Lenore Burnley, Chad’s mother, and Sallycar Korasingh, Samaroo’s sister. It cites the Alien Torts Act, which allows foreign nationals to sue in US courts in certain cases, and the Death on the High Seas Act.
The case filed on Tuesday is the first federal lawsuit filed in connection with the attacks. Families of the dead men are represented by attorneys from the ACLU, Seton Hall University, and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Jonathan Hafetz, of Seton Hall law school, said the lawsuit is the first of its kind because the US has never conducted this type of bombing campaign. “This is uncharted water. Never before in the country’s history has the government asserted this type power,” he said in an interview. “This is a clear example of unlawful killing by the Unites States. The US is assuming the prerogative to kill victims in international waters.”
Bombshell Lawsuit Could EXPOSE Trump Lies Over Boat Murders
Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas. Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Génesis had never known. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were acting on an administrative deportation order against Gutiérrez, 26, issued in 2019, before Génesis was born.
“I kept telling them ‘the girl was born here’. They didn’t care, they picked up the child, just put a jumper on her and told me to get into the car with her,” Gutiérrez told the Guardian. The two were held for almost a week in a hotel 80 miles from their home, without access to a lawyer or a hearing before a judge, before being deported to the Central American country.
Activists and analysts point to a string of procedural violations in the case and note similarities with other recent detentions of children, such as that of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minneapolis. They see it as a chilling indication of what may lie ahead as Donald Trump’s administration continues with mass deportations.
Gutiérrez had been living in the US since 2018 after leaving Santa Cruz de Yojoa, a Honduran city of about 100,000 people, to “escape poverty and build a prosperous future”, she said. She received a deportation order a year later but remained in the country and in 2020 Génesis was born.
Gutiérrez said she separated from the girl’s father after suffering repeated abuse and applied for a U visa, designed to assist non-citizen victims of qualifying crimes such as domestic violence and sexual assault. There is a severe backlog in processing such applications and, like tens of thousands of others, Karen’s case was still pending.
War Secretary Greenlights ICE Using Military Base in Minnesota
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to allow immigration enforcement to use a military base in Minnesota. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has killed two Americans in Minneapolis this month.
The San Francisco Chronicle obtained an email from CBP requesting that the US decommission land at Fort Snelling as a staging area. The base is located just outside of the Twin Cities.
CBP plans to use the base to house hundreds of vehicles, ammunition, and aerial assets. Fort Snelling will additionally be able to house 500-800 ICE officers. The approval is a signal that the White House is prepared to double down on its crackdown in Minneapolis.
Here’s The REAL Reason ICE Is Invading Cities With Public Shows Of Force!
Minnesota raids continue as DHS report indicates two agents fired guns at Pretti
As federal immigration crackdowns in Minnesota continued on Tuesday, an initial report to Congress from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained by various news outlets indicates that two officers fired their guns at Alex Pretti during his fatal shooting. The report emerged as Donald Trump signals he may begin reducing the surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents in the state.
Obtained by CNN and CBS News, the report from Customs and Border Protection’s initial investigation into the shooting of Pretti states: “CBP [Customs and Border Protection] personnel attempted to take Pretti into custody. Pretti resisted CBP personnel’s efforts and a struggle ensued. During the struggle, a BPA [border patrol agent] yelled, ‘He’s got a gun!’ multiple times. Approximately five seconds later, a BPA discharged his CBP-issued Glock 19 and a CBPO [CBP officer] also discharged his CBP-issued Glock 47 at Pretti.”
The report does not indicate if one or both of those discharges hit Pretti, but notes that the firearm taken off of Pretti was “subsequently cleared and secured” in the border patrol agent’s car. Notably, the report confirms video footage that saw Pretti helping a woman who had been confronted by agents.
“CBPO was confronted by two female civilians blowing whistles. The CBPO ordered the female civilians to move out of the roadway, and the female civilians did not move. The CBPO pushed them both away and one of the females ran to a male, later identified as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a US citizen. The CBPO attempted to move the woman and Pretti out of the roadway. The woman and Pretti did not move. The CBPO deployed his oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray towards both Pretti and the woman,” the report says. ...
Later on Tuesday, Trump defended his administration’s actions and claimed they were carrying out a “big investigation” into Pretti’s killing. “I want to see the investigation. I’m going to be watching over it. I want a very honorable and honest investigation. I have to see it myself,” he said.
US federal judge blocks deportation of five-year-old boy and his father
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a five-year-old Minnesota boy and his father cannot be immediately deported, one week after their arrest sparked international outrage. A Texas-based judge issued an order saying Liam Ramos, the preschooler, and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, cannot be removed or transferred out of the judicial district where they are being held while the litigation challenging their detention proceeds.
Liam’s arrest seven days prior went viral and became a symbol of the Trump administration’s relentless crackdown on immigrant communities in the Minneapolis region. Attorneys for the family have said the father and son have an active asylum case and had entered the US at an authorized port of entry.
Officials at Liam’s school district spoke out about his arrest last week, saying the boy and his father were detained as they returned home from school. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defended the arrest, arguing that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was conducting a “targeted operation” to detain the boy’s father.
The father and son were quickly transferred out of Minnesota last week and taken to the Dilley immigration processing center in Texas, a facility that holds families with children and has been the subject of protests and complaints about conditions.
Fred Biery, a judge for the western district of Texas, wrote in his order that “any possible or anticipated removal or transfer of” the father and his child is “IMMEDIATELY STAYED until further order from this Court”. The government “SHALL NOT TRANSFER” them out of the district “during the pendency of this litigation and until further Order of this Court”, the ruling said.
"The administration has also filed a legal motion opposing a judge's order preventing them from destroying evidence"https://t.co/LxWAo3iwUS pic.twitter.com/O2yyW6XBic
— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) January 26, 2026
Pretti shooting witness describes everything she saw
FBI to investigate Minneapolis activists after far-right claim about Signal chats
The FBI director, Kash Patel, announced on Monday he was launching a criminal investigation into group chats used by Minneapolis protesters on the Signal messaging app, based on a social media post by the far-right personality Cam Higby. Patel used the podcast of another rightwing personality, Benny Johnson, to break the news.
Higby had posted on Sunday on X that he had “infiltrated” a group chat on Signal, the widely used communication app that offers effective encryption, populated by anti-ICE organizers in Minneapolis. Higby’s posts appear to show communication between Minneapolis activists in vehicles trying to locate and share the descriptions and license plates of potential ICE vehicles. He argued that the chats have “the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them”.
Higby pushed his disclosures on Johnson’s podcast, The Benny Show, where Johnson demanded a federal investigation. “This is clearly a coordinated infrastructure,” Johnson said, “and we’d like for the feds to take a crack at trying to get rid of this infrastructure the way they approach the mob or cartels or other terrorist networks, right?”
Patel himself then joined Johnson’s podcast – where he made frequent appearances before becoming FBI director – and confirmed that he would act as suggested. “As soon as Higby put that post out, I opened an investigation on it,” Patel said. “We immediately opened up that investigation, because that sort of Signal chat – being coordinated with individuals not just locally in Minnesota, but maybe even around the country – if that leads to a break in the federal statute or a violation of some law, then we are going to arrest people.” Patel was careful to say he was not investigating peaceful protests or first amendment activity, but added: “You cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm’s way.”
Kevin Goldberg, vice-president at the Freedom Forum, told the Guardian that impeding or obstructing law enforcement would be illegal, but that when he reviewed the Higby posts he saw nothing obviously illegal. “I got the sense the [Signal chat] group has been organized for purposes that are fully protected by the first amendment: to observe, to speak and to alert others of possible dangers. I didn’t see anything that impedes or obstructs justice. The claimed ‘doxing’ of law enforcement is not necessary illegal.”
KNIVES OUT: Kristi Noem TRASHES Stephen Miller As MN Killing Fallout Spirals
Pressure mounts on Kristi Noem as Republicans join calls for her to go
Top House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary, in response to the weekend killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, as two Republican senators join calls for her to resign.
The ultimatum from Democrats came after a majority of the House caucus signed on to articles of impeachment introduced earlier in the month in response to the shooting death of Renee Good, who, like Pretti, was a US citizen killed by federal agents during the increasingly violent immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota’s largest city.
“The violence unleashed on the American people by the Department of Homeland Security must end forthwith. Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives,” said Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, and his two deputies, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, in a joint statement. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”
Trump appeared to back Noem earlier in the day, telling reporters at the White House: “I think she’s doing a very good job. The border is totally secure.”
But in a sign of mounting frustration with the DHS secretary, two Republican senators also called on Noem to resign. The retiring North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told reporters that Noem’s conduct “should be disqualifying”, while Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski said the secretary “needs to be accountable to the chaos and some of the tragedy that we have seen”.
Judge strikes down Virginia Democrats’ plan to redraw congressional districts
A Virginia judge ruled on Tuesday that a proposed constitutional amendment letting Democrats redraw the state’s congressional maps was illegal, setting back the party’s efforts to pick up seats in the US House in November. Tazewell circuit court judge Jack Hurley Jr struck down the legislature’s actions on three grounds, including finding that lawmakers failed to follow their own rules for adding the redistricting amendment to a special session.
His order also said Democrats failed to approve the amendment before the public began voting in last year’s general election and did not to publish the amendment three months before the election, as required by law. As a result, he said, the amendment was invalid and void.
Don Scott, the Virginia house speaker , who was listed in Republicans’ lawsuit over the resolution, said Democrats would appeal the ruling. “Nothing that happened today will dissuade us from continuing to move forward and put this matter directly to the voters,” Scott said in a joint statement with other state Democratic leaders.
Virginians for Fair Elections, a campaign that supports the redistricting resolution, accused conservatives of filing their lawsuit in a known GOP-friendly jurisdiction, saying: “Republicans court-shopped for a ruling because litigation and misinformation are the only tools they have left.”
Donald Trump launched an unusual mid-decade redistricting battle last summer when he urged Republican officials in Texas to redraw districts to help the GOP win more seats, hoping to hold on to a narrow House majority in the face of political headwinds that typically favor the party out of power in midterms. So far that battle has resulted in nine more seats that Republicans believe they can win in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio, and six that Democrats think they can win in California and Utah. Democrats hope to fully or partly make up that three-seat margin in Virginia.
Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight amid threats from climate crisis and AI
Earth is closer than it has ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the US and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic”, a science-oriented advocacy group said on Tuesday as it advanced its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds until midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist members had an initial demonstration on Friday and then announced their results on Tuesday.
The scientists cited risks of nuclear war, the climate crisis, potential misuse of biotechnology and the increasing use of artificial intelligence without adequate controls as it made the annual announcement, which rates how close humanity is from ending. Last year the clock advanced to 89 seconds to midnight. Since then, “hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation” needed to reduce existential risks, the group said. ...
The group also highlighted droughts, heatwaves and floods linked to global warming, as well as the failure of countries to adopt meaningful agreements to fight global warming – singling out Donald Trump’s efforts to boost fossil fuels and hobble renewable energy production.
‘Abdication’: Trump takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time
The United States has officially exited the Paris climate agreement for the second time, cementing Donald Trump’s renewed break with the primary global venue to address global heating. The move leaves the US as the only country to have withdrawn from the pact, placing it alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries not party to the agreement. While it will not halt global climate efforts, experts say it could significantly complicate them.
First announced on his first day back as president last January in a stadium in front of supporters, the US’s departure comes as the Trump administration has launched a sweeping assault on domestic climate policy. This month, it also announced it will leave the UN framework convention on climate change, under which the Paris treaty was adopted. Together, the moves amount to a wholesale withdrawal from climate governance.
“It’s almost like they’re saying, we don’t care what you want from us, we will be the bad guys, and you cannot challenge us on it, because that’s exactly what we said you should expect from us,” said Basav Sen, climate justice project director at the progressive thinktank Institute for Policy Studies.
The US retreat from climate action has not halted all global emissions-cutting efforts. Investment in low-carbon energy is far outpacing spending on fossil fuels. Renewable energy sources accounted for more than 90% of new power generation capacity last year and, in much of the world, are now the cheapest source of new electricity.
China is increasingly shaping the green transition. Though it remains the world’s top coal consumer, its emissions appear to have peaked last year. This month, the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD surpassed Tesla in electric vehicle sales, while Chinese firms now produce more than 80% of the world’s solar panels and about 70% of wind turbines, giving them dominant control over clean energy supply chains.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Stopping ICE Shouldn’t Be Left to Armed Citizens
Immigration Enforcement – Trump Is Losing And Chickens Out
Federal Agents Threaten Legal Observers in Maine
US tech workers call on CEOs to demand Trump remove ICE from cities
Trump Admin Opposes Order Banning Destruction of Evidence in Pretti Killing
The US drew up a plan to invade Canada in 1930. Now Trump is reviving old fears
‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics
Just How High Can Silver Really Go?
‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop
Decades of Anti-Immigration Policy Created "Mass Grave" at Southern Border
A Little Night Music
Big John Wrencher - Third Degree
Big John Wrencher - Goin' Upstairs
Joe Carter & Big John Wrencher - Honey Bee
Big John Wrencher - Memphis To Maxwell
Big John Wrencher - RoughTough Boogie
Big John Wrencher - Maxwell Street Alley Blues
Robert NightHawk & Big John Wrencher - Blues Before Sunrise
Big John Wrencher - Conductor Blues
Big John Wrencher - Dust My Bed
Comments
A new low
in political begging: blatant extortion. Pay up, or be deported (at best).
https://x.com/LauraJedeed/status/2016508576420732992
Sigh…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
evening usefewersyllables...
heh, looks about par for the course.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. I wound up doomscrolling
down from the common dreams on ICE threatening Mainers and found this tidbit:
Also this on secret govt watchlists that the govt denies exist, even while J Edgar Patel announces that he's actively working on building yeet another one
And a related assertion that Alex Pretti was onor in an ICE database on protesters.
Locally we have a 72 year old woman missing in Marin Conty and a 77 year old massing and last seen in Castro Valley, with local news alerts but no information on whether or not anybody has checked to see if ICE kidnapped them, which I think should not only be the first step taken, but should also espressly stated in these various announcements wo that we know that has been done.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
both of those stories tweaked my interest as i was reading and they'll be in tomorrow's eb.
i was wondering as i read the ecuador consulate invasion story if the employee that was threatened by the ignorant hick ice agent could have just shot him and been covered by diplomatic immunity.
have a great evening!
We are getting war
Jeffrey Sachs: "There must be someone in Europe that has a brain left that -- if only you were in charge Glenn -- but there must be someone in power that has some minimal sense of responsibility for humanity"...
I kicked off another paid influencer from my Facebook account today. It's the primary joy I get from Facebook -- hitting that "block" button. Here's the bait post. Once they use the word "antisemitism" to describe the journalistic activities of Jews, that's when you know you've got a live one.
"I hang out with losers because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.” -- Donald Trump
evening cass...
that was a great interview that sachs gave to glenn diesen. sachs seems to be more and more at wits end everytime i see him these days.
heh, i knew that there was a reason that i ditched facebook years ago. i wish i could remember my password so i could delete my account.
Hey, joe!
Keep your head down, don't look around...
ICE protesters aren't being called domestic terrorists. They are being designated as domestic terrorists, therefore legitimate targets.
We are so f'cked, joe. Still, we do love music, art, history, poetry, and sometimes, one another.
I love your ebs. With all my heart, friend. And you.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Losing
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I've seen quite a few discussion on Iran. There is a view that the US has a tremendous amount to lose by attacking the largest sovereign nation in the Islamic Republic. I'd be nervous if I was sitting on an aircraft carrier within 20 seconds of a hypersonic missile. Doing Israel's nasty business in the Middle East is a sad tipping point for the United States, which will slide into diplomatic marginalization at a steeper pace. Forget economic growth. The numbers say that 40 percent of the US middle class will be living in rented rooms by the end of the year, whether the US attacks Iran or not.
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It looks like Mexico has succumbed to US rule, while Canada has flown the coup.